Text Manipulation

[Spearing Tyler Contractor USTC <Tyler.Spearing@hq.transcom.mil>]

All,

 

I have racked my brains trying to figure out a way to insert

a column of white space in a plain text file several (tens of)

thousands lines long.  The problem is there is no common text

before or after the column I need to insert the blank space.

 

For example, take the following block of text:

 

12345ABCDE67890FGHJK

Q1W2E3R4T5Y6U7I8O9P0

MNBHGVFRT7352508HY7S

THISLINEHASNOBLANKS2

ANOTHERLINEWITHNONE5

1MORELINEWITHNONEZZZ

 

I would like to insert a column (or two) of white space to

essentially create fields to be manipulated with NAWK, so

that the above text would look like the following:

 

12345AB CDE67890F GHJK

Q1W2E3R 4T5Y6U7I8 O9P0

MNBHGVF RT7352508 HY7S

THISLIN EHASNOBLA NKS2

ANOTHER LINEWITHN ONE5

1MORELI NEWITHNON EZZZ

 

I can use PERL, if necessary, but have a preference for either a shell script or SED command, etc..

 

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Tyler